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Celebrating 1500 Trees Planted!
We have good news to share! With your help, over the last 12 months we grew and cared for San Francisco's urban forest in a big way. Here's what that looked like!
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1 day ago1 min read


15 Urban Forest Facts
How many of these 15 Urban Forest Facts did you already know?
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Mar 71 min read


4 Ways Trees Help When It Rains
Our urban forest is working hard for San Francisco when it rains! Trees reduce the amount of rainwater that ends up flooding our streets...
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Dec 5, 20241 min read


4 Signs Your Tree Needs TLC
1. Ants Ants themselves are not directly damaging to trees, but they often perpetuate an existing problem by "protecting" insects that...
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Nov 21, 20241 min read


Tree Watering Tips
Did you know our watering crew visits 1000 trees weekly? If you have the means, we'd love your help with watering. Read our tips below! ...
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Sep 16, 20241 min read


Street Tree Myths... and Truths
Here are a few of the most common myths about street trees... along with the relevant facts you need to know.
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Apr 9, 20243 min read


Growing Green Careers
Our workforce development programs offer youth and adults the opportunity to steward the urban landscape while developing job skills.
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Jun 12, 20231 min read


Replacing what we’ve lost
Our rainstorms over the past couple of months brought down hundreds of street trees in San Francisco — trees we can hardly afford to...
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Mar 27, 20232 min read


Our new Adopt-A-Yard-Tree program
Earlier this month, Friends of the Urban Forest launched our new Adopt-A-Yard-Tree program to give free trees to eligible San Francisco...
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Feb 23, 20232 min read


New Year, New Programs, Updated Mission
At Friends of the Urban Forest, we connect people to nature and each other by planting and caring for San Francisco’s trees and gardens....
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Jan 11, 20231 min read


What We've Accomplished Together
As we start a new year, we'd like to share with you a review of things we've accomplished together. We've been working hard to bring the...
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Jan 1, 20232 min read


Treeless Streets Can Get Greener
A personal note by Karla Nagy, Vice President for Operations Dear Friend, If you moved to San Francisco from elsewhere, as I did, you...
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Nov 27, 20222 min read


Trees Are Cool(ing)
Did you know that San Francisco is the third-fastest-warming city in California? Fortunately, there’s a simple solution that can change...
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Oct 7, 20222 min read


Planting Positivity
As a Community Planting Manager for Friends of the Urban Forest, I transform streets and neighborhoods by planting street trees. I love...
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Sep 12, 20222 min read


Greener Block Award 2022
Friends of the Urban Forest chose the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District as the winner of its 10th annual Brian Tsai Greener Block Award....
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Jun 20, 20221 min read


Minimizing tree losses, maximizing tree love
Planting trees today will protect all of us, especially the most vulnerable, from the hotter climate ahead.
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Feb 24, 20222 min read


Rebuilding our volunteer workforce is an urgent job
It’s a time of year for giving thanks, and I’m thankful that volunteers will soon be able to join our tree plantings again. We suspended...
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Nov 15, 20212 min read


Preparing for a Dangerously Hotter Future
The extreme heat events we’re witnessing in the West are frightening. We’re way past the point of a “wake-up call” when it comes to our...
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Sep 26, 20212 min read
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